ERC honors University of Porto's i3s project

The research project "Glycans as Master Switches of B Cell Activity in Autoimmunity" at i3s - Institute for Research and Innovation in Health at the University of Porto, was awarded a Research Studentship in the 2022 Call Synergy Grants of the European Research Council(ERC).

This project will have an overall budget of 10 million euros, of which around 2.5 million euros are allocated to the research team led by Salomé Pinho, from i3s - the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health at the University of Porto.

In the ERC's 2022 Synergy Grants Call 29 European projects were selected for funding, with a total value of 295 million euros. With this funding, Portugal has raised 40 million euros in ERC Calls since the start of the Horizon Europe framework program.

Synergy Grants are Studentships that aim to support projects in consortia of no more than two to four principal investigators working together and bringing together different skills and resources to tackle ambitious research problems. Principal investigators must demonstrate the innovative nature, ambition and feasibility of their research proposal, as well as demonstrate that their team successfully brings together the scientific elements needed to address the scope and complexity of the proposed research question.